. Tacoma, the city with a snow-capped mountain in its dooryard. ^\ Pi /x. LOCATION Man made cities, God made the country. In the same sense in which the author intended, it is true enough that men make another sense, and one quite as true, cities are made, or appointed, by the Author of allthings, just as truly as the country. Cities are not things of chance. A city is the result ofcertain inexorable, economic laws. Locations make cities; or, at least, make cities possible;and men do not make locations, but utilize them. Men ha\-e tried to make cities in defianceof tiie law of locati
. Tacoma, the city with a snow-capped mountain in its dooryard. ^\ Pi /x. LOCATION Man made cities, God made the country. In the same sense in which the author intended, it is true enough that men make another sense, and one quite as true, cities are made, or appointed, by the Author of allthings, just as truly as the country. Cities are not things of chance. A city is the result ofcertain inexorable, economic laws. Locations make cities; or, at least, make cities possible;and men do not make locations, but utilize them. Men ha\-e tried to make cities in defianceof tiie law of location—and failed. Position is power. The growth of a city is usually in direct equation with that of the country tributary to larger and richer the tributary country, the greater and more rapid the growth of the great producing area has a natural outlet and inlet, a trade channel, a place of barterand exchange. Here great cities are located. Puget Sound is the natural outlet for a region almost indefinitely large. Its trade connec-tions reach south to
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